NEXT WAR'S WEAPONS.
USE OF MUSTARD GAS. .LONDON", January 95. Professor J. S. Haldane, of Birmingham University, a prominent biochemist,, defends proposals to use poison gas in the next year. He points out that, mustard gas in" the .Great .War caused 150 000 British casualties. One in 4U died, and one in 1200 was .permanently Iriie American Navy authorities, Pro-, fessor Haldane says, have discovered .that negroes are largely immune from the effects of mustard gas. He suggests that the best tactics in the next warwould be .to - employ heavy concentrations of artillery to spray a wide area; with mustard gas. - Two. days should' ■be allowed for . the'blisters to develop, and. then an attack, should be launched behind the usual heavy barrage of high explosives, gas-proof tanks being supported by negroes wearing gas masks.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18302, 9 February 1925, Page 10
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